Thursday News: “Is Donald Trump a Racist?” is Not a Difficult Question to Answer; “Unusual process for choosing Virginia’s judges”

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, March 10. By the way, I’m not sure why Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders can’t just answer the question about Trump being a racist and saying that yes, duh, he’s a virulent racist. Is that not glaringly obvious???

Unusual process for choosing Virginia’s judges (“South Carolina is the only other state where the legislature, not the governor, names judges and the South Carolina legislature relies on a panel to undertake a merit selection process.”)

Editorial: Cuccinelli news must be a hoax (“The news seemed like a hoax. Reports that a Senate panel had certified former Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli for appointment to the Virginia Supreme Court could not be true. Republicans in the General Assembly must be playing games. “)